The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit University held a symposium on the impact of the Oslo Accords on the “deal of the century” and the relationship between them, on Saturday, November 24, 2018. The symposium, entitled “The Deal of the Century: The …
Ali Jarbawi, the Director of the Master’s Program in International Studies at Birzeit University, shared his 10-day experience in Shanghai, China, presenting his reflections and impressions about Chinese political culture, the political system, and China’s status as a great polar power. The conclusion of his …
New article “Alternative Media and the Securitization of Climate Change in Turkey”, co-authored by Emre İşeri, in SSCI Indexed journal of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political ;
‘Studies on securitization dynamics in a growing number of sectors have been conducted, including securitization of climate change. However, a relatively understudied agent of securitization is media. In the proposed analysis, we study Turkey’s media framing of climate change and whether and how it relates to the framings of security in general to acquire in-depth understanding of the role national media plays in securitization of climate change. Along with alternative online media outlet Bianet, mainstream outlets (Sabah, Sözcü, Hürriyet, Milliyet) are analyzed. This article addresses the following main research question: How do the mainstream and alternative media frame climate change in the Turkish context? In order to answer this question, it adopts content analysis to analyze selected frames on climate change–related news utilized in Turkish media. Data have been collected and coded for three periods: first, the period of September–December 2007, when climate change was high on the global agenda. Second, January 1 to March 25, 2015, which was the period before the Pew survey began. Third, we have collected data for October 1 to November 4, 2015, which is the period just before the United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed. We find alternative media’s potential to serve as “alternative public sphere” by voicing the unspoken in public debate on climate change.’
Abstract by SAGE Journals, article available here.
Article “Can the Youth Bulge Pose a Challenge for Turkey? A Comparative Analysis Based on MENA Region-Driven Factors”by Gökay Özerim, in YOUNG-Nordic Journal of Youth Research. ‘One common characteristic of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries that have experienced internal conflicts in recent decades …
The Department of Political Science and International Relations and the Institute of International Economic Relations of Association of the University of Peloponnese organised on the 7th of February a guest lecture with the title “Brexit, Britain and the world”. The lecture was held by Christopher Hill, …
Michelle Pace hosted on the 1st of February 2019, the former French diplomat and former Head of EU Delegation to Syria, Anis Nacrour. In his talk, Anis Nacrour addressed the major past and ongoing changes and challenges in International Relations in the last twenty-five years.
More specifically, the discussion was focused on the aftermath of the wrongly designated « Arab spring » and its consequences on Europe, the withdrawals of the American military from the Middle East region, the return of Russia and the consolidation of Iranian presence and its implications on Israel and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf.
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The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and the American University of Beirut (AUB) organized International Conference “The Middle East: Thinking About and Beyond Security and Stability” within the frame of the New-Med Research Network, 07/02/2019 – 08/02/2019 – Beirut, Lebanon. Description: ‘Several leading scholars will gather in …
Dimitris Bouris and Beste İşleyen published a new paper in Geopolitics entitled “The European Union and Practices of Governing Space and Population in Contested States: Insights from EUPOL COPPS in Palestine”. This paper examines the EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS) with a …
The European Institute of the Mediterranean published its 9th edition of the EuroMed Survey. In this volume, Dimitris Bouris, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, co-wrote an article on the EU’s shortcomings in Syria, together with Anis Nacrour, Former Head of the EU Delegation to Syria, entitled “The Ins and Outs of the EU’s Shortcomings in Syria”.
The full article is available here.
Lorenzo Kamel has just published a monograph entitled “The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities“, Edinburgh University Press 2019. This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East – based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages – shows the transition from an internal …